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...portion, I too will hold back because I want to mirror the habits of a body type to which many people aspire. However, if an overweight person orders light, I'll make an adjustment. Obviously, small portions aren't working for him. If tiny meals don't help you stay trim, what's the point? Get me the cheeseburger deluxe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Lose Weight? Avoid Skinny Overeaters | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Switzerland where drug users injected heroin under doctor supervision and received counseling. "We found highly persistent improvement [among the patients]," says Uchtenhagen. Today, there are 23 clinics across the country that treat roughly 2,200 drug users, or about 6% of the nation's heroin addicts. The average stay is three years - a quick stint for users who average 15 years of heroin use. Less than 15% relapse into daily use. "In the beginning, without their daily chase for a fix, many of them fall into a sort of void. They get depressed: 'What did I want to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Doctors Are Giving Heroin to Heroin Addicts | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...however, Borlaug found a wheat strain with a unique genetic trait: the stalk became stubby, but the seed heads would stay large. When Borlaug transferred the gene into tropical wheat, he created a plant that could yield huge heads of grain while maintaining stable growth rates. Using Borlaug's seeds, farmers could produce four times as much wheat per acre. The discovery ignited the Green Revolution that helped eradicate famine in much of the world and earned Borlaug the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. His work saved hundreds of millions of lives, and today half the world eats grains descended from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norman Borlaug | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...financial system in the first place, which could eventually bring ruin to even more millions. The future is uncertain, so there's a lot to be said for solving today's real problems rather than obsessing about tomorrow's hypothetical ones. The trouble is that they won't stay hypothetical forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout's Biggest Flaw | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...think the whole team was happy to stay undefeated in the conference and to carry some momentum into California,” co-captain Egen Atkinson said...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Still Undefeated in Conference Play After Victory | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

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